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Posted by ramkarthikk 6 days ago

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs(text.blogosphere.app)
With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories.

There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/

If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

781 points | 196 commentspage 5
rallypi 3 days ago|
+1 on this — infinite scroll shouldn’t make parts of the UI unreachable.

A simple “load more” at the footer could solve this cleanly.

rodarima 5 days ago||
Amazing that the minimal version works in Dillo, except for the categories menu which uses JS (using a form and submit button inside a noscript tag would work as a fallback).
Biologist123 5 days ago||
Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!
rav3ndust 5 days ago||
cool stuff. have already found and bookmarked a few interesting sites just going through the list.

submitted my own blog there as well. it is cool seeing human-curated directories coming back (not that they truly left, but i've been seeing more and more over the last few years around the 'indie web')

i do a little something like this on my own site, but it is just a simple directory of sites that i like listed by category on a single page.

unvalley 3 days ago||
I like this kind of idea. Do you require RSS for the listed blogs? curious about the behind.
obsidianbases1 6 days ago||
Something like this is very much needed.

I hope to see more things like this.

What would be really cool is if there was a personalized algorithm (for you page) that stored data and processed locally.

ramkarthikk 6 days ago|
Thank you. I wanted to mostly stay away from algorithmic feed to stay true to RSS. On the non-minimal version of the site, you can sign up and follow blogs to have a "For You" tab, but it's still recent posts from blogs you follow.
Miraltar 5 days ago||
Instead or in addition to following blogs, what I'd love to have is a way to filter out those I don't like.
obsidianbases1 5 days ago||
Local keyword exclusions (to keep the server requirement minimal) might be pretty high impact.
givemeethekeys 5 days ago||
This is a great idea. I think you should ask people to pay a subscription for commenting. Turn it into a community supported site from the get go!
Kye 5 days ago||
Variety! I appreciate that it's not all tech writing from tech blogs from people in tech like almost every blog list/aggregator thing on HN.
joenot443 5 days ago|
I love it.

I'd love a search bar and maybe a means to sort by popularity (however you define it.)

I like that it's free and clean and direct; I hope it remains that way!

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